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Article: Ground zero.(religous education at Bible colleges)(Column)
- Article from:
- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- April 18, 2001
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Forming students through the Bible
FEW BYTES OF HUMOR have logged more miles on the Internet than certain bloopers and gaffes collected by Richard Lederer (in Anguished English and More Anguished English), and those excerpts having to do with religion seem to circulate most widely. Consequently, most e-mail users have seen such Sunday school gems as "Noah's wife was called Joan of Ark," "The seventh commandment is thou shalt not admit adultery" or "When Mary heard that she was the mother of Jesus, she sang the Magna Carta."
Teachers of biblical studies can match these examples of mangled scripture with our own private stashes of things discovered in ...
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Article: Bible sales go up this year, spiking after Sept. 11: ; ...
Charleston Daily Mail;
December 26, 2001 ;
700+ words
... ... vice president of Bible marketing for Zondervan ... that sold 7.1 million Bibles during the last fiscal ... Collegiate Devotional Bible and the African American Jubilee Bible, to name just a few. Typically, the Bibles repackage the same information ...
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